Transport from Zamosc, Ghetto, Poland to Belzec, Extermination Camp, Poland on 11/08/1942

The city of Zamość, located about 85 kilometers southeast of Lublin, was occupied by the Germans on September 13, 1939. Two weeks later the Red Army entered the city, and on October 20 the Germans reoccupied it.^[1] Under their authority, it became the capital of Zamość County in the Lublin District, which was within the territory of the General Government (Generalgouvernement) – Nazi-occupied central Poland.

The Jewish population, which was between 10,000 to 12,000 in 1939,^[2] was reduced by a few thousand who left with the retreating Red Army.^[3] As part of the Nazi policy of "cleansing" German or German-occupied territories of Jews,^[4] deportees arrived in Zamość.^[5]

On April 11, 1942, about 2,500 local Jews were deported to the Belzec (Bełżec) death camp, and on May 27 between 2,500 and 5,000 Jews from Zamość and the surrounding villages were sent to the Sobibor (Sobibór) death camp.^[6]...